Proclamation Rips Reagan

LAUDERDALE LAKES — The day President Reagan visits a German military cemetery in Bitburg will be a day of shame, according to a proclamation issued Tuesday by Mayor Alfonso Gereffi.

The proclamation states that Reagan, who departed Tuesday night on a 10-day European trip, would be honoring Nazi soldiers who ``murdered and mutilated thousand of American servicemen in World War II.``

Gereffi issued the proclamation at a city council meeting and opened the meeting with a prayer in which he called Reagan`s proposed trip to the cemetery ``low down and contemptible.``